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Examples:If you can't do anything prevent it, you might as well sit back and enjoy it.—if you are lazy in your prime, you'll be sorry in your old age—If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar ina needle.—lit if you marry a chicken follow the chicken, if you marry a dog follow the dog [idiom.]—like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back [idiom.]—if you ride a tiger, it's hard get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway—lit. if he orders you go, he forbids you stop (idiom); fig. demand exact compliance with instructions—If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken (idiom); A woman should follow whatever her husband orders.—lit. if one is fake, I shall compensate you for ten of them—If you don't plug the small hole, the big hole will be hard repair (idiom); A stitch in time saves nine.—Take what you hear be false, only believe it when you see it (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself.—believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself.—even if you build a thousand-league awning for it, every banquet must come an end [idiom.]— |